An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson

He was always learning. [Nora Bateson] From everyone and everything around him. As a child I learned from him that learning never stops. Gregory Bateson challenged us to rethink [Jerry Brown] or to stand back and try to perceive in a different way. To see how reality is actually operating. He was interested in larger patterns. [Fritjof Capra] He was interested in how things are connected and especially how living things are connected. Gregory said: "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think". What does it even mean to change the way we think? And he asked the question, what is there about our way of perceiving that makes us not see the delicate interdependencies in any ecological system that give it its integrity? [Mary Catherine Bateson] We don't see them and therefore we break them. You have a system and when you poke here [Stewart Brand] instead of something happening there, it happens that way. Or in some bearly recognisable dimension. As because it's a very complex system. The nature of the world in which I live and in which I wish you lived - all of you! - and all the time but even I don't live in it all the time. There are times, when I catch my self believing that there is such a thing as something, which is separate from something else. AN ECOLOGY OF MIND - a film by nora bateson AnEcologyOfMind.com